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Comprehensive maps of Philadelphia land use, produced by the WPA. View in Resource Browser. View Map Legend. Source: Map Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia. Visibility:
A 1752 map of Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people.
3 giorni fa · Philadelphia, city and port, coextensive with Philadelphia county, southeastern Pennsylvania, and situated at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the largest city in the state. Learn more about Philadelphia, including its history, in this article.
View high-resolution digital images of historic maps and documents. View mosaics of selected historic maps, mixed with current maps and aerial photographs from Google in an interactive viewer. (Not all materials are available in this viewer. Please consult the resource browser for a full list.)
Our map collection enables you to see how Philadelphia's neighborhoods and streets have grown and changed. Use our interactive mapping tool to overlay atlases dating back as far as 1843 over today's street layout.
This digital exhibit details the history of urbanization in colonial Philadelphia using maps and 3D visualizations.
Thomas Holme's A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania. In 1682, William Penn appointed Holme surveyor-general of Pennsylvania and charged him with the task of laying out the "greene country towne" that Penn envisioned along the Delaware River.
